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French-immersion students may gain access to B.C. francophone schools, parent group sayshttp://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/03/07/french-immersion-students-may-gain-access-to-b-c-francophone-schools-parent-group-says/
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/03/07/french-immersion-students-may-gain-access-to-b-c-francophone-schools-parent-group-says/#commentsThu, 07 Mar 2013 16:40:27 +0000http://blogs.vancouversun.com/?p=111951Canadian Parents for French (CPF) is urging its members to support a plan by B.C.’s only francophone board of education to open its schools to more students, including some non-francophones.

The proposed policy change was described to me as an effort to welcome French-speaking immigrants and other newcomers who speak neither French nor English to the 37 schools operated by the Conseil Scolaire Francophone (CSF), aka School District 93.

Proposed changes would give French-speaking newcomers to Canada and newcomers who speak neither French nor English an opportunity to enrol their children in ...

]]>http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/03/01/b-c-francophone-schools-consider-wider-admission-policy/feed/0jsteffenhagenThe cost of hiring lawyers: B.C. school districtshttp://blogs.vancouversun.com/2012/04/09/the-cost-of-hiring-lawyers-b-c-school-districts/
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2012/04/09/the-cost-of-hiring-lawyers-b-c-school-districts/#commentsMon, 09 Apr 2012 17:20:39 +0000http://blogs.vancouversun.com/?p=72141How do B.C. school districts spend their money? If you have time, plus an abundance of patience, you can peruse their Statements of Financial Information for 2010-11, which are all now available on the Education Ministry’s website.

But that data tells only part of a story and each figure has to be checked because an $84,000 payment to Cypress Mountain doesn’t necessarily mean the school bought a season’s pass for every student. Generally, the ...

A parent group is calling for a merger of French immersion programs and francophone schools in the B.C. public system.

Canadian Parents for French (CPF) made its pitch this week to federal politicians, saying a restructuring of French-language education is needed to ensure anglophone and allophone families have the same right as francophones to have their children taught in French.

As it now stands, only French-speaking parents in B.C. have the right to send their